Well, then that would explain why my almost-breakdowns have only yielded almost-breakthroughs…
I think that for some, they won’t need the complete breakdown to raise themselves higher. But you certainly get a different perspective on life when you’re looking up at everything. Maybe it’s only when we’ve got nowhere to look but up, we see even higher than where we were originally, and reach for that.
(Funny, what I just said works well with @worriedguy‘s… the distance from bottom to top is farther than middle to top…)
Personally, I find that finding myself farther from where I wanted to be rather than closer a little overwhelming. Spinning that to positivity would really help. So maybe that’s what the phrase is doing. Telling those that feel like they’ve fallen that it’s okay, they can still climb back up. If you believe that before you go up you have to go down, you won’t feel like you’ve made your life harder on yourself, you’re just going along with the necessary process. That your distance means you’re actually closer.